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The artist is Bubazuke and the character's name seems to be Hygia.
She's cute as a button and I looked her up. Initially all I found were some character sprites from at least two VNs of her making various expressions which I nicked for possible reaction shots. Further digging revealed that one of the visual novels is classed as "adventure" and seems to have as a possible outcome a particularly charming good end...
Regrettably, I ceased researching the matter further shortly thereafter when further inquiry uncovered what I strongly suspect was rather more detail into the precise processes of how that ending came about than was strictly necessary for plot advancement as well as considerably more comprehensive speculation into the biomechanics of snake girl anatomy than I cared to ponder. I think the VN is called Mamono Musume tono Seikatsu ~Lamia no Baai if you feel the need to look into such matters.

Sound Like a Badass Without Committing Yourself to a Lie

My Walter Mitty lifestyle is somewhat non-conducive to this challenge but sacred honor says I have to give it a go.

So, what to write about?

The barracudas? No. anyone who dives regularly knows that barracudas aren't that big a deal.

Changing the bilge punp hanging upside down in the bilge of a fishing boat taking on water during the storm off Hatteras while seasick? No. No one wants to read about me aspirating my own vomit.

Stepping on the Alligator? No That's not badassery, that's clumsiness.

The bear under the trailer? No. Does not qualify. The bear and I achieved a nonviolent resolution to the situation.

The other bear, when the bear cub was behind me? No. See above.

That time in junior high when we built the raft and left the paddles on the island and the cops got called and the missing persons report was filed but we had come ashore in a completely different city? Nope not badassery...but might qualify as a failed Darwin award.

That time, at the babysitters with the bees, the baby and the wild pigs?Nope. No one would believe that.

How I became Tidewaters only LIVING comic book supervillain? That's not badass...that's just pathetic.

So I'll go with the origin of my nom de plume....

Everything in this story is true, though some descriptive phrase choices might be debatable.

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Even better, there's no such thing as "PPK 9mm", at least in U.S. use, because unqualified "9mm" means the Luger round, while, obviously, PPK cannot chamber that. Most of those were chambered in .380 Auto.

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And what was even the point? "We could have Photoshopped this ad in
five minutes, but instead we decided to do it physically, run up our expense account, and do unfixable damage to an ancient indigenous artistic/religious feat of engineering"?

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Fri Dec 12 16:20:49 2014 (ZJVQ5)

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It was actually better than I expected. When I first heard about the damage, I was expecting to see tire tracks across The Monkey or something like that.

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I'm gonna be the contrarian here. Got no use for Greenpeace and it's a dumb publicity stunt, sure.

That said, seriously, -footprints-? If the surface is bare rock, assuming the Greenpeace guys weren't ramming in pitons to hold down their banners, there just ain't gonna be any wear. If it's dirt, the idea that footprints would last more than a few weeks (or less depending on weather) is just silly.

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Avatar - yes, seriously, footprints. The only reason the Nazca Lines have lasted as long as they have is that there is no weather there - no rain, almost no wind, and not even much temperature variation. The lines themselves are only a few inches deep.

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Someone showed a link to a local (?) newspaper showing after pictures. They left marks all over the place that are clearly visible and basically, since they scoured away the thin dark layer over the lighter under layer, are never going to go away. It's like making tracks in snow, except that the evidence isn't going to vanish in a season.
Ah, here we go.

Posted by: RickC at Sun Dec 14 15:50:00 2014 (0a7VZ)

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Oops, forgot to add: in the first picture, look at the red area: all the marks there were created by these idiots.

Posted by: RickC at Sun Dec 14 15:50:35 2014 (0a7VZ)

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I don't know if have places that are so fragile in U.S.. At some point, I was leaving tracks in Blackrock and watching how long it takes Google Maps to see them. They had to be reviewed every other year, or else rains would gradually erase them.

Another odd place like that is Botswana - the original area of Aloe. It's a plant that can live almost without water, but it withers really easily and any frost is fatal for it.

As this is obviously suspicious, it has been surmised that Don, who is something of a volcano otaku, had commenced building a volcano in his back yard.

Since this would open up a vast potential for awesomeness in the fields of both geothermal energy and mayhem, we've asked one of the Brickmuppet's Crack Team of Science Babes to to explain how the miracle of SCIENCE! allows this to be possible.

Ummm....It don't 'cause it ain't.

Well then.

Using Occam's Swiffer, the only remaining logical explanation is that one of these rusted through...which could represent a nontrivial product safety issue moving forward.